Presbyterian Mission Agency four for four congregation Archives

Advocating for environmental justice

Posted March 15th, 2022

They gather to remember. Every year on or close to July 16 — a day that will never be forgotten by the Navajo people — hundreds of Diné families and numerous allies from the Red Water Pond Road Community Association come together on Navajo Nation near Church Rock, New Mexico, to mourn, to pray, to heal and to act.

Fire destroys sanctuary but not spirits

Posted January 12th, 2022

Never has a lectionary passage been more providentially timed. Just four hours after worship ended on Sunday, Jan. 2, a major fire erupted in the sanctuary of Bethany Presbyterian Church in Spokane, Washington, the result of what fire officials determined was an “overloaded circuit.”

Pumpkins for peacemaking

Posted November 6th, 2020

While Sunday morning worship and congregational fellowship, not to mention Circleville’s annual Pumpkin Show — in that priority order, of course — would normally have brought the members of Circleville Presbyterian Church together this fall, these are strange times.

A calling in the community

Posted August 7th, 2020

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a chronology is worth a million.